A Brooklyn jury saw the moment when a teenager opened fire inside a Brooklyn bus, killing an innocent passenger.

A Brooklyn jury saw the moment when a teenager opened fire inside a city bus, killing an innocent passenger — and heard starkly different interpretations Monday of that fatal tragedy.

The bullet fired by then 14-year-old Kahton Anderson struck hard-working father Angel Rojas two years ago — and the teen is now on trial for murder as an adult.

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Anderson, 15, a member of a street crew called the Stack Money Goons, was aiming at rivals from the Twan Family gang who shot at him about two hours earlier, lawyers for both sides said.

But that's where their versions of the March 2013 shooting differed with prosecutors claiming he was settling a score and the defense arguing self-defense.

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"He was ready for them," prosecutor Nicole Chavis charged during opening arguments in a packed room at Brooklyn Supreme Court. "He was prepared. He was armed."

Anderson pulled the revolver "and fired, without any regard to anyone on that bus," she added.

After the single shot, he chased the group down a Bedford-Stuyvesant street "and he continued to fire this gun, shot after shot after shot," Chavis said, adding that he never gave a warning and was smirking when caught.

"Babies were crying, there was a lady screaming," the bus driver, Jennifer Worthy, said of the seconds that followed.

The .357 Magnum Anderson used has been his for at least two years, according to Facebook messages, even though he told cops it was his brother's. In his statement, the defendant said "it's a war out there," but the prosecutor claimed he started to talk about fear for his life after realizing he had killed a bystander.

Defense lawyer Frederick Pratt conceded that his client was involved in a beef with rival crews, but said it was part of a generations-long feud and "these young men were born into this situation."

He urged jurors to look closely at videos — taken from six cameras inside that B15 bus.

A few minutes after Anderson boarded the bus with a couple of pals, two young women get on followed by a man. He motions them to get off and they do, as two other men hold the bus doors and motion with their hands. They bust through the closing doors as more men converge.

Anderson, sitting in the back row, is seen pulling an object from his book bag as the first man to board approaches him. A second or two after the men who held the door step in, they're seen turning to flee with Anderson giving chase as other passengers duck.

Pratt said the men were the ones who fired at the teen earlier that afternoon and that he made the 10-block bus ride, too afraid to walk through enemy territory.